Saoi (the Irish word for wisdom) is a work by artist Seamus Kennedy, commissioned by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in 2005 under the Lumens project.

The Lumens project invited artists to make proposals considering ideas of light / illumination for the town of Dun Laoghaire,...

The residency began at the Carlisle Pier in 2006, initially focusing on the exterior of the main building as viewed from the road. The artist began studying its interior, in particular the 'shed', where the trains would have terminated. The history of the building was central as she wanted to ack...

The event took place on Saturday the 11 March 2006, inviting people to take part in one of six walking tours. The six walking tours were led by key local figures and specialists in their field. The tours included an Urban Wildlife Tour, Historical Tour, Architectural Tour, Docklands Area Tour, Mu...

For this work, McKenna created brightly coloured gelatine pieces, loosely based on fish and other forms, that were placed on Sandycove Beach at low tide on 3 September 2008. Over the course of the day, they gradually dissolved and drifted out to sea, leaving no trace of the work. McKenna is conce...

Kathleen Moroney used old cobblestones from the site in recognition of its former function as horse stables. Over a number of weeks she re-created them in porcelain clay and fired them in the kiln to create a bone-like white ...

Jeannette worked with women from The Star Project in Ballymun. The Star Project is a group of women who have stabilised their drug use and meet up on a daily basis. There were three strands of activity involved in the work, loosely connected by the notion of portrayal.

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Due to the distinctive rural context of North Tipperary, the Arts Office expressed a particular interest in artists developing work and exploring arts in rural contexts, arts in the context of regeneration, arts and ecology/arts and the environment and land art. The artists comments:

"In re...

Clocha' Rince is a small rural village in North Kildare, mainly consisting of a National School and a Church. It is a hidden, leafy, quiet and secluded hamlet with a very small but established community - a consideration when a new community was arriving. Sixteen houses were built in a small esta...

Lines/Plane: Larus/Cygnus is a work by Donald Urquhart, supported by Sligo County Council and commissioned under a water supply capital scheme. It is a permanent environmental work which is sited in the Garavogue River. Considering the source of funding for this project, it was appropriate...

THEN is a project by acclaimed British artist Adam Chodzko, curated by Aisling Prior. It was commissioned by Breaking Ground, the Per Cent for Art programme for Ballymun Regeneration Limited, from 2006-2007, in various locations across Dublin. It comprised of four works which fantasise future cha...